What languages are you learning?

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I have noticed that there are several people here that love learning languages too, so I wanted to see which people like to learn. You can say anything you want about them.

How did you first get into languages? I did back in April 2008 with German. I decided I wanted to learn it because I have German ancestry, and pretty much that reason only. So I torrented Rosetta Stone and did that for a couple months, and practiced a lot on a language forum, and got to a B2 level. But it started going down when I realized that I don't like Germans, because the youth there rape their own language with so many English loans, which I hate. And I lost just interest in Germany.

I am currently learning:

Basque - I first got interested in it in early 2009 because of how different it is compared to any other language, both in vocabulary and grammar. I started learning a couple times since then, but only started learning it seriously since September 2010. It is my favorite language, and I absolutely love it and the Basque Country, and I no doubt talk about it a lot on this forum. I'm going to be fluent in it, and I'd love to live in the Spanish part of the Basque Country someday, like Bilbo or Gasteiz.

Latin - In 6th grade I had an awesome social studies teacher, that got me interested in history a lot, particularly the Romans, and the language is awesome, so I decided I had to learn it. I want to read lots of old Latin literature, and also new works, and write in it myself. So November 2010 I started learning it, and it's going great. Believe it or not I'm much better in actually speaking Basque, since even though Latin is much more similar to English, it's harder to get practice for Latin, since it's a dead language.


I am wanting to start learning a third language, but not sure which I want to learn, partly because I'm being lazy with learning languages lately, particularly Latin.

The list of languages I'm considering learning, in order of which I think I'm the most serious about:
Scottish Gaelic
Faeroese
Old Norse
Latvian
Georgian

I'd love to learn all those languages someday, I've liked them all for a long time. There are lots of other languages I'd like to learn, but who knows which I will end up learning.

So write about the languages you're learning and why you learn them, I like reading and writing about languages, too much.

In my preteen and early teen years, I had an interest in learning Japanese. I managed to acquire some Japanese words and phrases from watching anime, but I never really had formal lessons.

When I was in high school, I started taking Spanish classes, even though I had no interest at the time in learning Spanish. After my first year of it, I discovered that I was picking up the language quite well. I took two more years of it in high school and am currently taking a class in college.

As of right now, I'd really like to become fluent in Spanish, and I can speak and write it to some degree, but I'm far from fluent. I know far more Spanish than I do Japanese.

Woot, a post! Great to see another language learner.

I like the Japanese language quite a bit, I love the sound and grammar of it. But I don't care for the modern culture much, although the traditional culture is quite interesting. I like Chinese culture and history a lot though. I might learn Mandarin someday, but I fear that I won't be able to learn remember hanzi well. Although, I learned a few cuneiform easily when I first got interested in Sumerian, which I still want to learn someday, since Mesopotamian history is awesome, and Sumerian's grammar.

I love history, so I love dead languages too: Latin, Ancient Greek, Sumerian, Old English, Old Norse, Old Irish, Old Frisian, Old High German, and so on.

British Sign Language

I was mute until I was 7 years old so despite being my first language my English was very delayed, between this and having asperger's making it difficult to talk in front of others (in high school when learning French and German if I attempted to speak I'd have a meltdown), it mean learning other verbal languages was close to impossible. Even when my father tried to teach me German* I found I just couldn't pick it up at all. Now as an adult that inability to take-on new languages has stuck. Shame as I'd love to learn Hebrew and Latin, they would both come in hugely useful in religious studies, for example Kabbalah, and I wouldn't mind learning Japanese too as it sounds like a 'bouncy' language.

* As someone who is half German I'm choosing to ignore your distaste for Germans

BUT sign language I pick-up very fast, I love it.
With verbal languages I was good at recognising patterns so good at listening and reading, it was just the speaking part that I couldn't do, with sign language it is visual so again I can recognise patterns very well, only obviously I don't have to worry about trying to speak or pronouncing words verbally - I panic when working with others or when signing for the teacher so get a bit confused out of panic, but I've noticed my actual signing is spot-on and I seem to pick it up faster than others in my class. I'm really hoping I can become fluent.

Awesome, sign languages are cool. I'd love to learn some American Sign Language, but you can't really learn a sign language with the internet alone, you need to take a class with a fluent speaker to practice with. I learned a bit of Hebrew last summer for fun, I love the sound of it, and it's pretty easy. But since I have no interest in the culture or Israel or anything, I won't learn it.

That's great that you do so well with sign language, after being a mute for a long time.

Well I'm part German too: my great-great-great-grandpa was from Baden-Wuerttemberg.

i started learning German in school, wishing i'd paid more attention now lol.

i'd really like to learn Chinese, Japanese or Indonesian (or something cool like that)



since school, i've only learned FORTRAN, JavaScript, AppleScript and Visual Basic, but they're a different type of lingo lol

I'm Czech and have been learning English and German for some years. I'd like to learn Russian and Latin somewhen.

The language I'm most interested in learning is Czech. I'd also like to learn Akkadian.

I'm studying German for GCSE, and know some French.

I'm learning Spanish in school, relearning Hebrew in my free time, and I'm teaching my self the Arabic alphabet. I want to learn German and Russian, but I really need to speak Hebrew again. I spoke it fluently as a kid but when I was transfered into public schools I eventually forgot. I can still read it and now I'm learning slowly.

How was Rosetta Stone - any good? I was considering trying this (also through a torrent, mind you ).
I'd like to learn German and Dutch. German because I'd like to visit Germany and Dutch because I just like the sound of it.

There's no such thing as an Arabic "alphabet"; it's called an abjad. That sucks that you forgot Hebrew.


Well, with languages like German and Dutch which are already quite close to English, it works well, but since it only teaches words and sentences, you'll have to learn grammar separately (unless of course you can do that just through example sentences, at least up to an intermediate level).

English.

Russian.

Middle English (working on a translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - will hopefully make a better job of it than the mauling I gave the alliterative Morte Arthure!), Old Norse (want to do a translation of the Poetic Edda.) I can read ME reasonably well, and can scrape through ON when I already know the story.

Java, Python, ML...you never said what kind of languages